University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE We leave behind and yet we take with us Chapel Hill as interpreted by our President, to which the class of 1939 has made, he has said, a rich contribution: In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old University, the first state univer- sity to open Its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here. Traditions grow here with the ivy on the historic buildings and the moss on the ancient oaks. Friendships form here for the human pilgrimage. There is music in the air of the place. To the artist ' s touch flowers grow beautifully from the soil and plays come simply from the life of the people. Above the traffic of the hour church spires reach toward the life of the spirit. Into this life, with its ideals, failures, and high courage, comes youth with his body and his mind, his hopes and his dreams. Scholars muster here the intellectual and spiritual resources of the race for the development of the whole personality of youth, and would make the University of North Carolina a stronghold of liberal learning with out- posts of research along all the frontiers of the world. Great teachers on this hill kindle the fires that burn for Carolina men and women and light up the heavens of the commonwealth with the hopes of light and liberty for all mankind.

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DEAN DF ADMINISTRATION MY DEAR FRIENDS OF THE CLASS OF 1939: You have been a part of the University during a dramatic and exciting period of its history. Inside the State and nation and outside in the whole world of affairs questions of the utmost moment have been impending during your en- tire college career. I think that you have dealt with these ques- tions intellectually and in terms of feeling and action with a fine self control and a splendid aptitude for genuine participation in the current world. You hove certainly, in addition, brought warmth, color, and exuberant vitality into the life of the University and the University com- munity while you have been here. You have not been without particular problems in campus life and government. I think you have handled them well. Nothing on the negative side has occurred here but what you have developed something on the positive side to balance the situation and carry it forward. You have developed fine leaders in all aspects of healthy student life, and I think permanent qualities of leadership are evident in your class. At the same time, I hove the utmost faith in the great body of the class — men and women who are not yet conspicuous and do not desire to be, but who in the quiet processes of study, work, play, and imaginative fellowship have been laying the basis for significant and beautiful living You graduate with the friendship and sincere good will of all of us who have been privileged to associate with you here.